Oh Boy - the SW fanboy club upset! How dare anyone call out SW - heresy you say.
I have contacted SW - Jason, Jim, Ivan, Simon - with no resolution to multiple issues.
The SW Cloud product is a poor product. It’s shortcomings are documented on this board. In contrast to the hardware, the problems with SW Cloud continue from update to update.
You don’t like what I have to say
@tridacna? Move your mouse on by, your vulgar slur is uncalled for. Use your big boy words, please.
And I have skin in the game - 8 current SW units in the family that I have paid for - others bought and sold off.
Me? The SW cloud product is inclusive in the purchase of a SW computer and I think it should work properly. The connection should be seamless, the database robust, persistent without internet connection, and updates should work. Maybe the fanboy crowd thinks differently?
@Shearwater Cloud posted in the lengthy SB thread below. While the thread went dormant in Oct 2020, SW Cloud issues did not.
SW Cloud seems to be needing some user-input. I've complied requests (features and fixes) from a couple of recent threads to help try and focus things. I'm a very 'light' SWC user and never used SW Desktop as a Teric was my first SW computer. I've not used other dive software (and my 'need'...
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Shearwater Cloud was last on this board August 25, 2020, having joined SB on November 20, 2016. Perhaps they had enough of SB as a forum for support?
Selected quotes from the dormant Oct 2020 thread
Sorry, but Shearwater should not be in the log s/w business, stick to hardware and firmware or they should start from ground zero and completely redesign the log apps. While I only know the MacOS and iOS versions, IMHO they are the worse things I’ve seen in ages. I’ll stick with MacDive for feature, usability, developer responsiveness, and overall design.
I don't think everyone feels Shearwater Cloud is terrible. It works fine for me and captures all the info I need. I will be interested to see how people answer the first two questions under the "shopping list" in the original post.
I wish we had the option to backup to iCloud (for IOS version) or Dropbox, like with MacDive.
Hello Jay, we have been actively at work and we are currently at version 2.5.8. We have been slowly addressing bugs and issues (and a few more have cropped up). I cannot promise when a major revision will be out, but we feel that the updates from 2.5.6 to 2.5.8 have made some good improvements, and we are always working to improve the app. <<>>